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As usual, let’s go straight to his website: Yihui Xie | 谢益辉 Below is the introduction from his homepage: I’m a software engineer working at RStudio, PBC. I earned my PhD from the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. My thesis was Dynamic Graphics and Reporting for Statistics, advised by Di Cook and Heike Hofmann. I have developed a few R packages either seriously or for fun (or both), such as knitr, animation, bookdown, blogdown, pagedown, xaringan, and tinytex. I founded a Chinese website called “Capital of Statistics” in 2006, which has grown into a large online community on statistics. I initiated the Chinese R conference in 2008. I’m a big fan of GitHub, LyX and Pandoc. I hate IE. I fall asleep when I see beamer slides, and I yell at people who use \\textbf{} to write \\title{}. I know I cannot eat code, so I cook almost every day to stay away from my computer for two hours. ...

Go directly to the expert’s website: yufree Below is the introduction from the homepage, featuring numerous articles and shares: I am a scientist at the Jackson Laboratory. My research interests are environmental chemistry, data analysis, and exposomics. Contact me via blog or Email if you have questions, and my CV is available here. This humble monk’s mind is full of untimely thoughts, fond of humor and sarcasm. When browsing this blog, do not take the words too seriously. ...

Overly delving into one thing may not be a good thing, especially when what you’re studying has already been thoroughly researched by others, and you clearly know you can’t push the boundaries further than they have. At that point, you start to feel like your life is being wasted. Every day, I write down a lot of things, recording a vast amount of work and study notes—though it’s more accurate to call them records of pitfalls. Gradually, I’ve come to realize that such efforts don’t hold much meaning. If they’re not done well enough, they won’t provide even the slightest help in real life. ...

By Wang Xiaobo When I was thirteen, I often stole books from my father’s bookcase to read. At that time, the political atmosphere was tense, and he had locked away all the books that were unsuitable to be left out in the open. In that bookcase were Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Shakespeare’s plays translated by Zhu Shenghao, and even The Decameron. The case was locked, but my elder brother knew how to pick the lock. He also had a way of persuading me to take the risks: You’re young and slight. I don’t think Dad will have the heart to spank you. But in reality, when it came to spanking me, my father didn’t seem particularly gentlemanly, and my hands and feet weren’t agile enough, always giving him the opportunity. In short, we both read the stolen books, but I was the only one who got spanked. That’s how I got to read some books. Though it was unfair, I don’t regret it. ...

By Zhu Che I live on the top floor of Building 27. The sun scorches the reinforced concrete rooftop, and the heat lingers until four or five in the morning. As a result, my bed is nothing like those in Guiyang—during the summer, it’s essentially a full-coverage electric blanket. It’s unbearably hot, I fall asleep late, and dawn comes early. The construction workers start their noisy labor early too, so I inevitably wake up early, my pillow drenched in sweat. I’d love to go back to sleep, but the moment I pick up my phone and open Bilibili, I give up on the idea—though I’m still exhausted. So I drag myself out of bed, turn off my phone, sit naked in front of my computer, and start pondering: What do we actually gain from spending so much time on video platforms? ...

文/王小波 有位老同学从美国回来探家。我们俩有七八年没见了。他的情况还不错：虽然薪水不很多，但两口子都挣钱，所以还算宽裕。自从美国一别，他的房子买到了第三所，汽车换到了第四辆，至于PC机，只要听说新出来一种更快的，他马上就去买一台，手上过了多少就没了数了。老婆还没有换，也没有这种打算，这正是我喜欢他的地方。虽然没坐过罗尔斯·罗伊斯，没住过棕榈海滩的豪华别墅，手里没有巨额股票，倒有一屁股的饥荒，但就像东北人说的，他起码也“造”了个痛快。我现在房无一间地无一垄，当然只有羡慕的份儿。但我们见面不是光聊这些——这就太过庸俗了。 ...

文/王小波 1997 我原是学理科的，最早学化学。我学得不坏，老师讲的东西我都懂。化学光懂了不成，还要做实验，做实验我就不行了。用移液管移液体，别人都用橡皮球吸液体，我老用嘴去吸——我知道移液管不能用嘴吸，只是橡皮球经常找不着——吸别的还好，有一回我竟去吸浓氨水，好像吸到了陈年的老尿罐里，此后有半个月嗓子哑掉了。做毕业论文时，我做个萃取实验，烧瓶里盛了一大瓶子氯仿，滚滚沸腾着，按说不该往外跑，但我的装置漏气，一会儿就漏个精光。漏掉了我就去领新的，新的一会儿又漏光。一个星期我漏掉了五大瓶氯仿，漏掉的起码有一小半被我吸了进去。这种东西是种麻醉药，我吸进去的氯仿足以醉死十条大蟒。说也奇怪，我居然站着不倒，只是有点迷糊。在这种情况下，我还把实验做了出来，证明我的化学课学得蛮好。但是老师和同学一致认为我不适合干化学。尤其是和我在一个实验室里做实验的同学更是这样认为，他们也吸进了一些氯仿，远没我吸得多，却都抱怨说头晕。他们还称我为实验室里的人民公敌。我自己也是这样想的：继续干化学，毒死我自己还不要紧，毒死同事就不好了。我对这门科学一直恋恋不舍：学化学的女孩很多，有不少长得很漂亮。 ...